Sunday
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Staff / Welcome and Introduction from the Chairs
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm
Keynote Session: The Neural Circuitry of Consciousness and Unconsciousness
7:40 pm - 8:20 pm
"Consciousness and Sleep"
8:20 pm - 8:35 pm
Discussion
8:35 pm - 9:15 pm
"Probing Theories of Consciousness"
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Mechanisms of Consciousness and Unconsciousness
9:00 am - 9:30 am
"Cortical and Thalamic Microcircuits Underlying EEG Signals Across Different Conscious and Unconscious States in Mice"
9:30 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:15 am
"When the World Fades Away: Predictive Coding and the Neural Correlates of Disconnected Consciousness"
10:15 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am
"Consciousness and the Brain's Macroscale Spatiotemporal Architecture"
11:30 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:15 pm
"From Synchrony to Asynchrony in the Local Network: Cellular and Network Mechanisms of Transitions Across Brain States"
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Free Time
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
The GRC Power Hourâ„¢
The GRC Power Hourâ„¢ is designed to address diversity and inclusion in the scientific workplace by providing a safe environment for informal and meaningful conversations amongst colleagues of all career stages. The program supports the professional growth of all members of our communities, including ethnicity, race and/or gender identity by providing an open forum for discussion and mentoring.
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Disorders of Consciousness
6:00 pm - 6:30 pm
"Covert Consciousness in Patients with Severe Brain Injury"
6:30 pm - 6:40 pm
Discussion
6:40 pm - 7:10 pm
"Assessing Coma and Disorders of Consciousness Using EEG Dynamics at Rest and in Response to Anesthesia"
7:10 pm - 7:20 pm
Discussion
7:20 pm - 7:50 pm
"To fMRI or Not to fMRI? Translating the Science of Disorders of Consciousness Into Clinical Practice"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Tuesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Group Photo
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Mechanisms of Anesthetic-Induced "Unconsciousness"
9:00 am - 9:30 am
"A Mesopontine Node for Anesthetic Induction and Loss of Consciousness"
9:30 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:15 am
"Non-Anesthetics as Tools to Understand Anesthesia"
10:15 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am
"A GABAergic Hub Controlling Sedative/Hypnotic and Analgesic Effects of General Anesthesia"
11:30 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:15 pm
"An Optoelectrical Approach to Understand Sleep, Anesthesia, and Consciousness"
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Free Time
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Anesthetic Emergence and Cognitive Recovery
6:00 pm - 6:30 pm
"Towards Whole Brain Capture for Anesthetic State Modulation"
6:30 pm - 6:40 pm
Discussion
6:40 pm - 7:10 pm
"Role of Dopaminergic Circuits in Conscious and Cognitive Recovery Following General Anesthesia"
7:10 pm - 7:20 pm
Discussion
7:20 pm - 7:50 pm
"How Advances in Neural Signal Processing Could Expand our Understanding of Consciousness and Anesthesia"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Wednesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
9:00 am - 9:30 am
"The Electrophysiological Correlates of Dreams and Other Conscious Experiences in Sleep"
9:30 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:15 am
"Sensory Disconnection in Sleep and Anesthesia: Neural Correlates and Underlying Mechanisms"
10:15 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am
"Blurring the Lines: Wake and Sleep, Not Two Mutually Exclusive States"
11:30 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:15 pm
"Anesthesia-Induced Dreaming"
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Free Time
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Hibernation and Sleep Across Diverse Species
6:00 pm - 6:30 pm
"Effects of Torpor and Other Hypometabolic States on Brain Activity and Behavior"
6:30 pm - 6:40 pm
Discussion
6:40 pm - 7:10 pm
"Brain Clearance During Sleep and Anesthesia: Myth or Reality?"
7:10 pm - 7:20 pm
Discussion
7:20 pm - 7:50 pm
"Cold Adaptation Strategies Across Species: Deviating from Stasis in Homeostasis"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Thursday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Business Meeting
Nominations for the Next Vice Chair(s); Complete the GRC Evaluation Forms; Election of the Next Vice Chair(s)
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Altered States of Consciousness and Mental Health
9:00 am - 9:30 am
"Circuit Mechanisms Underlying the Anxiolytic Actions of Serotonergic Psychedelics"
9:30 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:15 am
"The Clinical Pharmacology of Psychedelics and MDMA"
10:15 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am
"Dynamic Mechanisms Underlying Altered States of Consciousness"
11:30 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:15 pm
"Unlocking the Therapeutic Action of Psychotropic Agents by Imaging Neuronal Circuits in the Living Rodent Brain"
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Free Time
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
The Evolution of Consciousness
6:00 pm - 6:30 pm
"On the Brain of Sleeping Dragons"
6:30 pm - 6:40 pm
Discussion
6:40 pm - 7:10 pm
"Comparative Anaesthesiology: An Evolutionary Approach to Consciousness"
7:10 pm - 7:20 pm
Discussion
7:20 pm - 7:50 pm
"Consciousness is (Not) Something Else: Challenges for Theories and an Illusionist Alternative"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure